Crime, prostitution and violence were blamed on poor housing while alcoholism became synonymous with the slum. Many attributed the poverty and the poor living conditions of the working class to "the lack of such virtues such as frugality, industriousness and temperateness." It was believed that the general solution to the problem of the workingman and his family was to elevate their character. .
Through Pullman's experience in building luxury sleeping cars he knew that "beauty improved the individual." Pullman intended to create a model town for workers, which would "attract and retain a superior type of workingman who could in turn be elevated and refined by the physical setting." In Pullman's heart, this would result in happy employees and a consequent "reduction in absenteeism, drinking and shirking on the job." Essentially, the town would protect the company from labor unrest and strikes. .
The town of Pullman began to quickly populate as an industrial and residential center. Pullman's intention of improving living conditions was an immediate success. Outside visitors frequently commented on the clean streets, beautiful foliage and newly erected tenements and houses. They were more spacious and comfortable than those of the inner city. However, it must be noted that even though the new residences were quite remarkable they could not be purchased. Instead, they were rented out to Pullman in advance who received a reasonable 6 percent profit. Many historians believe that the inability to own property was one of the main flaws of Pullman. "The average length of residence in 1892 was four and a quarter years. Many residents later purchased homes in neighboring towns. Asked why he had bought a home, an ex-resident answered that he felt a greater freedom in his own place." The company did nothing to stop the residents from moving out. It was their belief that the town's moral environment had prepared the men for the "symbol of middle-class respectability.
The Town of Pullman was both a success and a failure. ... There was unrest by the residence in the town of Pullman because George Pullman's vision was carried out. ... The first thirteen years of the town Pullman was a success. ... For this reason Pullman remained a dry town. ... First, the town itself which was the dream of George Pullman and the model town in which all future towns would be based upon became a reality. ...
In order to prove this Pullman created a utopian town with satisfactory housing, a church, and a school. ... This is when the Pullman Strike started. ... This economic boom forced Pullman to have to lay off 40% of his current employees. ... Pullman was refusing to negotiate with the workers and, in fact, was giving favoritism towards his employees that lived in his town when he was rehiring. ... All the workers wanted were fair wages and a fair workplace, but Pullman and the ARU were refusing to respect that. ...
Together, they share a carefree existence scampering across the roofs of the college, racing through the streets of Oxford, or waging war with the other children in town. ... In his Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman has produced the most virile attack on organised religion and God that I have ever read. In fact, if this had been published a few centuries ago, Phillip Pullman would probably no longer be with us. ... According to Pullman, even though we in our own world do not have physical daemons, we have the equivalent within us. Pullman makes the daemon sound so appealing and such fun, ...
Instead, a few days later, 8,000 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard took over the town. ... Pullman workers lived in a company town described as, "bordered with bright beds of flowers, and green velvety stretches of lawn, shaded with trees, and dotted with parks and pretty water vistas," (Meltzer 148). ... Though was a section of the town that included this. ... The Pullman Corporation appointed all the town officials. ... "As employer, George Pullman dete...
The National Guard came in and secured the town. ... George Pullman was a man that essentially owned a town. He owned the housing, factory, and services of this small town and almost all of those that lived there worked for him. ... This backing fueled Pullman's battle and allows him to not breakdown to the ARU's demands. As a counter move the ARU asked for the help of the AFL in the strike against Pullman. ...
The first national strike in United States history took place in 1894, when railway workers struck the Pullman Company. George Pullman, manufacturer of the railroad cars that still bears his name, built a "company town" to house his workers. ... They organized and went on strike, first in Pullman, but the strike spread until all the railway workers in the United States walked out. ... And yet the strikers did not "win" their case, Pullman kept his rents where they were. ...
It is a strange tale of Jack Potter, an insecure marshal of a small Texas town on the Rio Grande, Yellow Sky. ... Potter's "recent marriage is significant, not just, as the story suggests, because he is a prominent person in the town, but because it makes him as much of an anomaly in a Western story as he is on the Pullman-(Collins 142). ... The first primary setting is the Pullman car. ... But in reality, the landscape stands still and the Pullman car is moving. ... This setting has the same significance as the Pullman car setting. ...
The Pullman community has an ongoing stigma, and is having a problem getting rid of it. ... With Pullman being such a small town and the weather so bad in the winter and fall, many students take up drinking and other bad influences to occupy their time. ... This isn't the case just on campus in Pullman, WA. Scott, age 18, is a senior in high school that lives in Pullman. ... Non-campus in Pullman had 38 under age incidences in 2001, on campus 568. ...
The Pullman train is carrying Marshal Jack Potter and his Eastern bride back to Yellow Sky. ... The second setting is "a world of complete contrast to the Eastern Pullman: the setting is Western, the bar of the Weary Gentleman Saloon" (Solomon 253). ... He has told no one and is quietly attempting to sneak his bride back into town. ... Scratchy is the town's drunken bum. ... Despite his comical appearance, Scratchy is still the terror of the town. ...
